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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 7 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.53 — 674 ratings — published
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 316 ratings — published
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 495 ratings — published 2001
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,499 ratings — published 2013
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 460,956 ratings — published 1995
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.11 — 880 ratings — published 1996
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,003 ratings — published 2023
"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.98 — 113 ratings — published
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,363,796 ratings — published 2005
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,096 ratings — published 2009
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.11 — 66 ratings — published 2012
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.58 — 41,696 ratings — published 2007
Stranger Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,655 ratings — published 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 281,323 ratings — published 2014
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,221 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,863,289 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.09 — 232,915 ratings — published 2011
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,530 ratings — published 2008
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.88 — 59,171 ratings — published 1996
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.75 — 106 ratings — published 2025
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 970 ratings — published 1996
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,990 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.47 — 796,436 ratings — published 2022
Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.40 — 657 ratings — published
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.19 — 538 ratings — published 2024
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.36 — 971,538 ratings — published 2020
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,709 ratings — published 2020
Working with Adoptive Parents: Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2013
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.26 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,333 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,314,206 ratings — published 2017
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 108,872 ratings — published 2021
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,736 ratings — published 2016
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,321 ratings — published 2016
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 85,320 ratings — published 1959
The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila? – A Teacher's True Story: The Sequel About a Silent Girl's Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,583 ratings — published 1995
The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.66 — 122 ratings — published
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,803 ratings — published 1993
Taking Children: A History of American Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 133 ratings — published 2020
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,036 ratings — published 2016
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 60 ratings — published 1996
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,426,776 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 242,998 ratings — published 2012
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.40 — 726,941 ratings — published 2017
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.97 — 146,447 ratings — published 2011
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.49 — 17,988 ratings — published 2002
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.23 — 209 ratings — published 2006
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,022 ratings — published 2013
Somebody Else's Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America's Troubled Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 121 ratings — published 1997
I Speak for This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.19 — 308 ratings — published 1995
“Ain't nobody want to adopt me,' he says. 'I thought if I did good, they would let me get back with my brothers, but when they didnt' I said fuck it.”
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
― We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
“Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will.”
― Acceptance: A Memoir
― Acceptance: A Memoir
